US writer.
He was a chief spokesman for the "beat movement," 1950s; wrote "Naked Lunch," 1959.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Published Sources for
the above Quotations:

F:

The Adding Machine, "Women: A Biological Mistake?" (1985).

R:

The Job: Interviews with Daniel Odier, "Prisoners of the Earth Come Out" (1969).